Thought I'd share this...

So I was talking to my manager, who happens to own an iPhone. As far as I know he doesn't any other Apple product, but he definitely has the same psychological problems that an Apple fanatic has.

I happen to be talking about how useful for my job it is to have the N900. Being able to SSH into our phone server and reload Asterisk, or trouble shoot the flash panel.

So inevitably he started talking about the iPhone 4.. and how 'innovative' it is.

I just said "the only thing I thought was kind of cool was the high resolution screen, but since it's capacitive, I wonder how accurate it'll be, I love my stylus, it's extremely useful on the higher resolution and more accurate than a finger tip."

So he then started replying by saying "why would I want to go back to a phone with a cord?" Wtf?

So I started to explain to him, on some websites, links can be rather tiny at higher res, and if the capacative screen isn't very accurate, you'd never be able to click on any of them, forcing you to zoom every time. But he kept with his argument, then saying that most websites he visits have a 'special iPhone version'. How screwed up is that? Seriously, why would you want a special iPhone version, when you can enjoy the FULL web? Flash? You know, the sort of things that are USEFUL?

So I just told him, "wow, so you really buy into the 'well if we say it's not useful, then it must not be!' Apple crap?" He just kept on saying why would he want to go back to a phone with a cord.

Truly, Steve Jobs has somehow mystified geeks into think he's the next Jim Jones. I wonder if Apple started to collapse, if he'd get them all to drink some Koolaid.

I swear, that man could sell a Word Processor without a Spell Checker.

Steve: Hey programmers, I've got a great idea for you! Let's put a full word processor on the iPad so that people can write on the go!

Programmers: But Steve, we've been working on the word processor since we released the first iPhone. It's almost done, but we don't have a spell checker, auto-indent, and a few other things.

Steve: That's ok, we'll just ignore that and tell our customers that it's better, because they will be able to write with the same crappy language they use in text messaging and it won't highlight everything in red! It's brilliant!

Programmers: Uhm, that's really a dumb idea Steve, we really should get this in there...

Steve: Bah, we'll just add it later, and say it's a new revolution in word processing! We can add it amongst our 100 new features, along with bookmarks and PDF reading....

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